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There are plenty of Firefox plugins that do everything from blocking ads to helping you make grocery lists. However, this list focuses on plugins that do much simpler tasks, but can also be just as useful, if not more. Here they are, 5 plugins for the simple things.

Fission

If you’ve used Safari on Mac OS X, you’ll be familiar with this. Fission “makes the progress bar more visible and allows for a nice visual effect,” so as a page is loading the address bar fills up, and is basically just a loading bar for the page. It is useful to see how much more needs to load, and is a nice, simple, and unobtrusive way of doing it.

Smart Link

You know when someone posts a URL, but doesn’t actually make it a link? Instead of simply clicking on it you’re forced to copy and paste it into your address bar, making it more difficult than it should be. This solves that problem. If there is a plain text URL, you merely select it, right click, and Smart Link adds an option to either open it in a new tab or a new window. It can be quite useful, and saves a little bit of time and effort every once in a while.

dragdropupload

This extension allows you to “drop files into attachment boxes instead of browsing for them or typing in the filename,” and you can even “drop multiple files and fill all the entries.” It makes uploading files anywhere much easier, especially if you want to upload a lot. It’s useful on countless sites, and a much better alternative to browsing for every individual file.

ReloadEvery

ReloadEvery will automatically reload any page at an interval of time you set. It can be especially useful when you’re waiting for a page to update, trying to crash a site, or various other times when you don’t want to sit there hitting F5 repeatedly.

Resurrect Pages

Whenever a page is down, this extension provides links to CoralCDN, Google Cache, Yahoo! Cache, The Internet Archive, and MSN Cache, so you don’t have to go searching. It’s useful all the time when sites are down, and makes it much simpler to see them even if they’re gone. Plus, if you use sites like Digg and are used to seeing pages that can’t handle the traffic, having five internet cache sites only one right click away can save plenty of time.

Now that I’ve shared mine, what are some nice and simple Firefox plugins you use?